Dr. Soumyadip Roy
October 19, 2023 2023-10-19 3:55Dr. Soumyadip Roy
Dr. Soumyadip Roy
Associate Professor and Associate Dean (VITAL)
B.A. (Economics) (Jadavpur University);
M.A. (Economics) (Jawaharlal Nehru University);
Ph.D. (Iowa State University)
Soumyadip is an economist who works in the areas of Labour Economics, Applied Econometrics and Applied Microeconomics. He is also interested in questions of development economics and environmental economics. He has worked on the impact of covid on leisure, the relationship between active, passive leisure and health and is currently working on dairy farming in Haryana. At JGU, Soumyadip has taught courses in Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Business Statistics, Econometrics, Labour Economics and Corporate Governance.
Apart from teaching and research, he heads the Masters programs at JSBF. He is the program coordinator for the M.ScFinance program and is involved in the design and delivery of the Ph.D Finance program.
Soumyadip is part of the Office of Student Welfare (OSW) at JSBF.
Soumyadip also has 5 years of experience working in the banking and finance industry, both in India and in the United States of America. Before joining JGU, he worked as Vice President, Fraud Risk for Citibank in Wilmington, Delaware, USA. He tries to bring a balance of theoretical and applied perspectives in his teaching and research, by drawing upon the unique industry experience he has gained.
Area of Expertise
- Labor Economics, Development Economics
Working Papers
- “Minimum Wages and the US Retail Labor Market” with Peter Orazem
- “Active and Passive Leisure, Health and Wages” with Peter Orazem
- “Paid and Unpaid work by Immigrants in the USA” with Ruchira Sen
Ongoing
- Adoption of Global Best Practices fr Milk Cooperatives in Haryana” with Amlan Das Gupta and Ram Ramachandran
- Roy, Soumyadip and Peter F. Orazem. “Active Leisure, Passive Leisure and Health”. Economics and Human Biology. (2021) (Accepted and in press)
- Jindal Global Law School: Economics I (Fall 2019)
- Jindal School of Banking & Finance: Corporate Governance in Financial Institutions (Spring 2020); Macroeconomics and the Indian Economy (Spring 2020)